[NBLUG/talk] Microsoft agreed to buy rights to Unix technology

[troy]

On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 11:26:06PM -0700, Kyle Rankin wrote:
> On Sun, May 18, 2003 at 10:00:55PM -0700, Edward Mendoza wrote:
> > Microsoft agreed to buy rights to Unix technology from SCO, a boost to SCO's
> > efforts to get royalties for a predecessor to Linux.
> > 
> > http://online.wsj.com/public/us
> > 
> > Nightmare becomes reality,
> ...
> 
> Read carefully, if you check the article at yahoo:
> 
> http://biz.yahoo.com/djus/030519/0114000182_1.html
> 
> you'll see that MS just agreed to license SCO's Unix patents they are
> claiming.  
> 
>    "But Microsoft's move suggests that the software company's lawyers view
>    SCO's patents as important, and could encourage other companies to
>    strike similar pacts."
> 

Hmmm.  /me wonders if M$ parted with a little cash merely to continue
and extend their FUD campaign against Linux in general.  Hoping, perhaps
to sway those still on the fence about making a Linux deployment.

Thanks for the no-login-needed link to yahoo, BTW.

-t